Three-Year Lefty-Righty Splits For Each MLB Park

Most major league ballparks affect righthanded and lefthanded batters differently, so teams cannot necessarily rely on an overall park factor when searching for players most ideally suited for playing 81 games at home each year.

For example, Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field has played as the second-most favorable home run park for righthanded batters since 2009. However, just 11 parks have been less hospitable for lefty home-run hitters in that time. Appropriately, Paul Konerko, Carlos Quentin and Jermaine Dye dominate the recent single-season home run tallies for White Sox batters, while Jim Thome is the lone lefty to hit more than 18 in a season in the past decade.

The Indians’ Progressive Field produces the opposite effect. Lefty batters prosper by hitting the ball in the air in Cleveland (11th highest home run rate), while righty batters curse the 19-foot wall in left field (28th highest home runs rate). Find the righty/lefty hitting averages for all 30 parks during the past three seasons in the following two tables. Parks listed alphabetically by organization nickname.

All samples include performance by both home and visiting batters. All data generated by Baseball-Reference ballpark platoon splits.